The Progressive Housewife: Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945-1965

by Sylvie Murray

Book Overview

Fictional characters, such as June Cleaver, and criticism of suburban domestic passivity, notably Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, have profoundly shaped our popular and intellectual view of the immediate postwar decade. It is this image of apolitical domesticity and suburban conformity that Sylvie Murray challenges in The Progressive Housewife: Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945-1965. Set in the rapidly developing neighborhoods...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812237188
• ISBN13: 9780812237184
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"